Example sentences of "the [noun] of a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Two major changes to CA-dBFast version 2.0 are the addition of a visual applications designer , and the inclusion of CA-Ret , the report writer .
2 The addition of a user-definable Thresholds and Gauges feature — as specified in the IEEE 802.1F standard — enables network management to be customised .
3 Smith was a leading figure in the local and national movement to promote technical education , beginning with the provision of a new Mechanics ' Institute in Keighley in 1870 — he was secretary of the building committee — and continuing , after a formative visit to France , Germany , and Switzerland in 1872 , with the setting up of an associated ‘ trade school ’ , providing technical and art classes .
4 The Italian national debt is the third largest in the world , but until recently the short maturity and floating rate nature of its debt has prevented the provision of a suitable futures contract .
5 The other important check on bureaucratic dominance is the provision of a high-level complaints procedure through ombudsmen .
6 This points to the existence of a distinctive women 's politics and culture prior to the entry of the term feminism into linguistic usage .
7 Much is heard and read in the media of essentially anecdotal evidence about the apparent interdependence of markets and the existence of a global securities market .
8 Among the most interesting exhibits are fragments in the first room taken from excavations at Malamocco and elsewhere on the lagoon which prove the existence of a local ceramics industry .
9 In general , larger firms tended to make more use of qualifications ( possibly reflecting the existence of a trained personnel staff who themselves owe their position to qualifications ) .
10 1987 ; Reiner 1985 ; for an earlier and related argument see van Maanen 1973 , 1975 ) , and thus to the existence of a generalized police occupational culture .
11 The pull of a triple demands 80kg ( 2001b ) breaking strain line .
12 This is often extraordinarily hard to achieve , but remains at the heart of a successful schools .
13 In the case of a biological arms race , on the other hand , we can usually see only the end-products .
14 In the case of an asymmetric arms race , between a lineage of weapons and the specific antidotes to those weapons , it is the one-to-one correspondences that , over the successive ‘ generations ’ , lead to ever greater sophistication and complexity .
15 Part of the function of an external UPS is to smooth out the incoming power , but that can only be done before it reaches the PC 's power supply .
16 Analysis in cell lines and transgenic mice using a combination of these sites has revealed the presence of a conserved element(s) between -300bp and -190bp which is required for neuronal-specific expression .
17 These experiments demonstrate the presence of a brain-specific element(s) between -300bp and -190bp relative to the cap site which is conserved between the human and mouse genes .
18 All day long at the Janata Dal officers in Amethi yesterday , Mr Jain and his supporters scrambled to update the list of party workers and activists who were beaten up by Congress I supporters — many of them in the presence of a senior police officer .
19 These do require a certain degree of inference , but it is clear that under some conditions such remains can suggest the name of a sponsor , the reason for sponsorship , and the presence of a respected craftsmen or group of craftsmen At Avenches — and probably at Bavay — in France , and at Seriana and Timgad in North Africa , the names of individual craftsmen are attested ( although , as is shown by the inscription from Timgad , even differing ideas of the practice in which the craftsman was involved are apparent ) .
20 Galileo was in the process of making a major contribution to the building of a new mechanics that was to prove capable of supporting detailed experimentation at a later stage .
21 The driver of a heavy goods vehicle suffered a cut ear after it overturned on land behind the premises of Stranton Waste and Salvage in Thomlinson Road , Hartlepool .
22 This fear of the mob has continued to haunt the executive , who saw that control could best be determined by the installation of a professional police organization formulated on strict hierarchic , semi-militaristic lines , and possessed of discipline , obedience , and loyalty .
23 East German television was this week allowed into the barracks of a crack guards regiment at Karlshorst .
24 Upper-class objectors worried about traditional civil liberties , central government encroachment on the delicate network of power relations in local parishes , and the expense of a public police .
25 Elevations , a response to dance by Glasgow-based Richard Learoyd , the result of a Scottish Arts Council commission in 1990 ( until 16 Feb ) .
26 In stressing the ubiquity of the differential principle in all aspects of Russian Formalist thought one runs the risk of implying that the coherence of the theory is the result of an intellectual parti pris , and that the intention on the part of the Formalists was to establish a fixed dogmatic system .
27 His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission .
28 In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church .
29 Option 6 allows the librarian to have overdue reminders printed out by the microcomputer and in terms of time saved , this is one of the attractions of a computerized loans system .
30 Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures .
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